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Descendents of Harry and/or Frank Tyrer

Descendents of Harry and/or Frank Tyrer

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 4:29PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am trying to trace my grandmother's family history. From her birth certificate Kathleen Tyrer was born 26 May 1891 in Chislehurst, Kent - 4 Hadlow Terrace, Sidcup R.S.D. Her parents are Frank Tyrer and Elizabeth Ann Susanna Tyrer (formerly Hopper) and her father's profession is listed as corn merchant.

Kathleen had two older brothers, Percy and Claude. Her mother passed away when she was a young girl and her father remarried. Her father had more children from his second marriage. The one sibling my mother met, Charlie, remained in England and visited the USA via Windsor, Ontario. My mother met him at the Windsor/Detroit border.

From The Bromley Directory - 1876, Sidcup Directory, I found a listing for Harry Tyrer and Company, Coal Factors, Hay, Corn and Seed Merchants, Fly Proprietors and Job Masters.
Harry would be my great, great grandfather.

From the Ellis Island records I found Kathleen Tyrer arrived at Ellis Island 30 May 1919 onboard "The Saxonia", manifest line 0020. Her residence was listed as Maidstone, England and she was 27 years old and single.

She moved to Detroit, Michigan where her brothers Claude and Percy lived. She married Charlie Barnum and had two daughters - Frances and Jean. Mr. Barnum passed away and Kathleen married Leo P. Swehla and had three daughters - Eileen, Elizabeth (Betty) and Barbara. My grandmother passed away in 1978 in Michigan.

I appreciate any information you can provide. Thank you.

Re: Descendents of Harry and/or Frank Tyrer

Posted: 30 Oct 2013 6:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tyrer Mayatt
That's my family line. Harry TYRER was the illegitimate son of William Orme TYRER and Catherine McDONALD. He was baptized Harry McDonald in Birmingham. Father William TYRER a Gold Beater. Harry married France Elizabeth MAYATT.

Katherine TYRER daughter of Frank TYRER was baptized at St.John the Evangelist, Sidcup 16th July 1891. Her mother Elizabeth Ann Suzanna HOPPER died 28th Feb 1906 at "Dolmondon" Holland Rd, Maidstone, Kent.

Frank and Elizabeth had 5 known children. Percy (illegitimate) 1884 Frank 1885 Claud 1886 Ralph Leopold (served in the Royal Australian Navy) Violet Frances Mary 1888 died 1893
Percy died Michigan Nov 1964. Half siblings by Minnie Gertrude Rivers were , Philip Frank 1908, and Peter Rivers 1910.

No Charles known.

I have both the TYRER and MAYATT back to the late 1700's.


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